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Historical Event on 1/30/1999

Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, is chosen for Bharat Ratna.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/28/1998The BJP-led alliance survived its first test of trust with the support of Chandrababu Naidu's Telgu Desam Party. Jayalalitha continues to call the shots.
6/20/1992The JD and the NF choose former Lok Sabha Dy Speaker Prof. G. G. Swell as the Presidential candidate.
1/30/1968Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer and President of All India, passed away.
1/29/1939Radical Subhas Chandra Rose beats Gandhi's candidature to become Indian President.
7/3/1991Kailash Sethi was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 22-07-1996.
7/29/1998The Pratapsingh Rane Ministry in Goa is dismissed. The Governor instals Dr. Wilfred Desouza as Chief Minister.
9/5/1997Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.
4/30/1998Sukh Ram, former Union Minister, decides to resign as a Minister in the Himachal Pradesh Government.
9/27/1703More than 8,000 people died in a cyclone in England.
2/19/1949Mass arrests of communists in India.